Estudo da aeroelasticidade em problema acoplado fluido-estrutura da semiasa simplificada para veículo aéreo não tripulado - VANT.

Abstract

The aeroelasticity is the field of science that studies the relationship between the aerodynamic elastic and inertia forces. Such knowledge is of great importance in the aviation field since the wing structures are flexible, must withstand the aerodynamic loads and be rigid enough to ensure that it is free from all aeroelastic problems like divergence, control efficiency, flutter and buffeting within the operating speed range. We carried out a modal analysis of the structure in order to know the natural vibration modes and natural frequencies. To this end, we used the ANSYS Structural with finite element method, a mesh study to verify the convergence of the results. It is also studied the influence of the slender body position of the tip of the flat plate, which causes the decrease of the second natural frequency. Furthermore, there was a twodimensional analysis of a volume control type C-Grid, since the control volume aerodynamic size in a computational analysis is an extremely important factor. A large volume of control has more elements in the mesh if it is small, the boundary conditions together with the sizes of elements may affect the results of the velocity field and pressure around the structure. In this context, we used the ANSYS FLUENT for the aerodynamic simulation of the inclined flat plate, and obtaining the aerodynamic support, and drag coefficients CL and CD. The results were compared with experimental results of Goudeseune wind tunnel (SELIG; ROBERT; WILLIAMSON, 2011). By calculating the Grid Convergence Index (GCI) and comparing the numerical results with experimental data found the convergence and managed to determine a control volume size with low and acceptable error. The fluid-structure coupled two-way analysis was performed using ANSYS Structural to analyze the structural dynamics through the finite element method and ANSYS CFX to resolve the flow field by the finite volume method. It was possible to obtain the oscillatory behavior of the structure, besides the damping coefficient and von Mises stresses. Analyzing the transient behavior of structural dynamics by a constant aerodynamic flow (fixed speed), the simulations represented the phenomenon as well, since with the increase in speed, the flow induces cushioning structure as compared to low speed